ATPU

The Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) is an intelligence agency of Kenya that is active in anti-terrorism. The ATPU was created in 2003 in response to the bombing of the United States embassy in Mombasa in 1998 and on an Israeli-owned Mombasa hotel in 2002, and it had to deal with increasing amounts of terrorist incidents; from 2011 to 2014, there were 70 grenade and gun attacks in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Garissa, with 30 attacks in 2012 alone. Human Rights Watch accused the ATPU of being behind extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Kenya, as well as arbitrary arrests and mistreatment of terrorism suspects in detention. From November 2013 to June 2014, 10 people were killed, 10 disappeared, and 11 were mistreated due to the ATPU,